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Thanks John;
Quick question, I might switch to the Orinoco card, what's the difference
between the silver and gold,
do they both have external antenna provision ?
Thanks Again
Lou
BTW MD 9.0 finds and configures a wifi card, not sure if its the right one,
might be the chip set problem
Helms vs prism?
Lou out
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of John McElroy
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 12:54 PM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] WiFI config
Lou,
Not Mandrake 9.0 but this may be of help...
I just did a clean install of RedHat 8.0 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 equipped
with an Orinoco Silver wifi pc-card. RedHat recognized the card and loaded
the drivers for it.
But...
RedHat did not configure the laptop (or network settings) to use the
pc-card. That is it did not create a device (eth0) to use the hardware.
This may be your problem on Mandrake. I had to go into System
'Settings->Network' (RH8.0 running Gnome2) and 'Add...' the device selecting
Orinoco from the wireless hardware list (which showed that the Orinoco
pc-card was installed on my laptop).
Then I had to configure the device settings appropriately for my wireless
network (I have a SMC 2655W access point providing DHCP). So I had to add
the wifi and network information, click 'Activate' and it lit right up! Be
carefull of the wifi settings such as 'Channel', 'SSID', and 'Key' (if you
are using encryption).
Not automatic but far less painless than when I set it up under RH7.3.
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:13:52 -0500
John McElroy <jmcelroy@macelroy.net> wrote:
> I have also use the "pcmcia-cs" package successfully on a Toshiba Tecra
8000 in conjunction with an Lucent Orinoco Siver wifi card. Lucent also had
a Linux driver I downloaded but I don't remember if I used it or if I used
the built in support in pcmcia-cs (I think the later). Worked perfectly
once installed and configured but it took some doing on my part. I'll check
my notes to see if I have anything further to offer.
>
> Also, use the "iwconfig" package/utility to setup and check the
configuration of the card/driver.
>
> "wireless-tools" is also a decent text/curses based utility for setting up
and configuring you wireless access point.
>
> All should be available on freshmeat.net (or via apt in debian possibly).
>
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 09:22:16 -0500 (EST)
> Martin DiViaio <scatterbrained@usermail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Does the kernel (or cardmgr) recognize the card? If so, as what?
> >
> > Chances are, the driver module for the card is not loading when you
insert
> > the card. This could be because the module is not installed or the card
is
> > not recognized to run with one of the existing modules.
> >
> > See http://www.80211-planet.com/tutorials/article.php/953531 for a brief
> > tutorial and links to other resources.
> >
> > If you think that the card is 100% hardware based and only needs a basic
> > driver to communicate; there are a couple of generic ethernet drivers in
> > pcmcia-cs you can try to get the card up and running. Setting that up is
> > fairly easy but non-trivial.
> >
> > I've never used the kernel's internal pcmcia support (I'm use to
pcmcia-cs
> > and feel it's more mature/stable) so I couldn't say what is available or
> > how to force it to load.
> >
> >
> > On the 16th day of November in the year 2002 you wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:38:36 -0500
> > > From: Louis Dallara <ldallara@comcast.net>
> > > To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> > > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.20
> > > Subject: [PLUG] WiFI config
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello;
> > >
> > > Can any help me with some basics on configuring a wireless card
(generic
> > > band with no web purport)
> > > for Mandrake 9.0. on a Dell Isp 7000 laptop.
> > >
> > > The card powers up and transmits in the pcmica slot, but has no
hardware
> > > configuring.
> > >
> > > Any help will be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Lou Dallara
> > >
> > >
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